Content Uploader

Introduction

Formerly known as the Excel Uploader. The Content Uploader will allow you to upload data from a spreadsheet directly into articles! This means that each row from your excel sheet will create one new article on your site. Website creators who want to populate a site quickly by importing existing articles, will find this particuarly useful as it eliminates a time consuming, manual process.

I have installed this free utility and uploaded 13000 articles (one liner) in one shot to add link for downloading of 13000 powerpoint shows from my site funppt.com and pptfree.com. Unimaginable. Manually, this would have taken 2 months. However, it may be noted that Word articles are uploaded as one paragraph without any paragraph break unless you add html tags before and after each paragraph in the word file.

Usually I will be very careful to write my comments, most of time I do not read documentation & figure out by itself how would this extension would work, because I have used hundreds of extension & soon wanted to publish a website which contain maximum extension used.

I am sure this extension would be simplest & easy to use, but I was unable to figure out, & try to read documentation which nothing explain except to setup “parameters” then spend a lot of time in Forum but there is not a single clue after uploading file (article) then { what next ? } Shell we use [ Syntax ] in (article) or will there be [ embedded ] button will show up ?

I will give suggestion like Peter van Westen (from nonumber) has published 12 extension and most of them are popular simply because he did not wrote long documentation but rather quite simple & easy word few images, steps by step like a guide to new joomla user, although most of his extension would be used for advance & at complex level & to make it easy & simple.

I will be glad to support and I am sure there is positional but it is frustrating and hidden yet.

Owner's reply:
Hi Naseem,

I realise the documentation is pretty sparse just now and a similar remark to yours was made in our forum. As a result, there is now a document available on our site that explains what can be entered for each parameter. You can get it here:
http://bit.ly/bqf2LG

There will also be a tutorial videos on the demo site in the next few days.

The lack of a mass import solution has been a major weakness of Joomla for quite some time. I have not had time to extensively test the extension, but it seems to be an answer to this problem. As somebody who uses excel alot, this is a godsend! The main thing that could use would is the documentation, there is not much right now.

This component has a big potential...really! (sorry for my english, I'm italian)

The autor should consider:

- adding an example excel file (call it a template, a starting point for new users)

- adding more detailed documentation

- the component should not strip out html tags that finds in the table fields (except from the first column=title).

You should consider also making a new component similar to this one, dedicated to joomfish: imagine the possibility to upload translations for a large number of articles at once!

I'm available to support this project by translating in italian

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Content Uploader Pro

Paid download |
Data Import & Export |
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3

Score:

97

29 reviews

Combine the power of Excel with Joomla! If you have a large set of articles to create or to update the Content Uploader will save you hours of work. You create the configuration once where you define the article layout and the Content Uploader will do the rest. Just select your Excel file and press Upload - done!
Watch our demo video to see how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Y7j4GVQp0
Formerly known as the Excel Uploader. The Content Uploader Pro allows you to upload Excel sheets to batch create:
Joomla! articles
K2 items
J2Store Products
K2Store Products
Web Links
Contacts
Joomfish translations
Akeeba Admintools Redirections
This means that each row from your Excel sheet will create one new article/item on your site. Website creators who want to populate a site quickly by importing existing articles, will find this particularly useful as it eliminates a time consuming, manual process. Furthermore you can update existing articles by downloading the existing ones and reuploading them with supplying their ID to the Content Uploader. The same way you can upload your Joomfish translations for all articles like that from an Excel sheet.
Have a look at our site for the documentation and features comparison between the pro and the free version.
All Excel spreadsheet types are supported (xlsx, xls, csv, ooc, zip and more).

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MailChimp integration for Joomla!

Free |
Mailing & Newsletter bridges |
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3

Score:

53

33 reviews

The MailChimp integration is a whole new Joomla! newsletter component and more. It thoroughly exhausts the MailChimp API and will bring you unprecedented control and content inclusion options with your newsletters, along with satisfaction. Get a free MailChimp account and send up to 12,000 newsletters to 2,000 subscribers each month: http://bit.ly/JMailchimp
Managing your lists, subscribers and newsletters has never been this easy and yet the depth of features will blow you away. Through the combination with MailChimp you can have a full-featured newsletter component for free when you get started. And as you grow your business and your newsletter subscriber lists, you will really start to take advantage of MailChimp's infrastructure and resources. If you have any trouble with the newsletter extension then drop us a line in our forum.
Some highlights:
Slick Newsletter Template Editor (choose from http://colourlovers.com palettes)
Integrates with registration process for Joomla, JomSocial and Community Builder
Import existing site users to MailChimp, SugarCRM http://www.sugarcrm.com or Highrise http://highrisehq.com
Control Panel Newsletter Stats Module for Joomla! admins
Newsletter Subscription Module
Detailed Newsletter Reports w/comparison table
Insert articles' intro or full text from Joomla core and K2 (http://getk2.org) into newsletters
Add Virtuemart products to your newsletters
Send newsletter stats reports via email
Social sharing of your newsletter campaigns
Use Mailchimp's Timewarp if you signup your users with the registration package which is delivered along with the main component
Newsletter Campaign Folder Management
Autoresponders
Multilingual Interface
In-depth userprofiles
New e-com rating system (based on purchases) for
AEC - Account Expiration Control by Valanx
Ambra Subscriptions by Dioscouri
Virtuemart

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Broken image notifier

Free |
Admin Reports |
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3

Score:

33

1 review

Broken images on a website make it look unprofessional and poorly maintained. They need to be fixed as soon as possible but how do you even know about them if you don't go through all your sites manually from time to time? Here is the solution. This plugin scans your website on each page load for broken images and sends out an email if it detects one. This allows you to fix your website as soon as possible and saves you the time to check all pages yourself.

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J2Top

Free |
Site Navigation |
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3

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0

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J2Top creates a button that appears on the bottom-right (or -left) when you scroll down the page. Once clicked the page will scroll smoothly to the top of the page and the button will disappear. The look of the button is fully configurable from the backend,
you can change the text, font-color, font-size, background images and much more.
As of version 1.0.8 the button text can be translated in the plugin configuration or by using language files. Additionally we added an option to display the button also in the administrator interface.
You can also define how much pixels must be scrolled down before the button appears, the time that the button needs to fade in and out and if the button should be transparent by setting the opacity between 0.1 and 1.